[HN Gopher] Oblivious HTTP
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       Oblivious HTTP
        
       Author : weeha
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2022-06-14 17:53 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.ietf.org)
        
       | politelemon wrote:
       | > Oblivious HTTP is primarily useful where privacy risks
       | associated with possible stateful treatment of requests are
       | sufficiently negative that the cost of deploying this protocol
       | can be justified.
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       | It would be great if they included some examples to help readers
       | relate to situations, but I can understand (or guess) that a
       | document like this wants to stay academic and distant from real
       | world since it probably won't age well?
        
         | halJordan wrote:
         | A straightforward answer would be air ticketing. It's well
         | known they identify sessions and manipulate your options to
         | give you a bad deal and them a good deal. If there's an
         | asymmetry of info that is being exploited then this is useful.
        
           | c22 wrote:
           | So why would they deploy this technology on their servers?
        
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